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Nichatka
Nichatka (russian: Ничатка; evn, нича) is a fresh water body in the Kalarsky District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. The lake has an area of . The name of the lake comes from the Evenki language word for "fish". Nichatka is located to the northeast of the great Lake Baikal, Baikal. There are no settlements on the banks of the lake. The nearest airfield is Chara Airport. Geography Nichatka is a long and narrow lake east of the Canyon, gorges of the Vitim River, off the eastern limit of the Delyun-Uran Range. It stretches roughly from north to south at the southern end of the Patom Highlands and to the north of the Kodar Range. The Sen (Vitim), Sen River, a tributary of the Chara (river), Chara, flows from the northern end of the lakeshore.There are other deep lakes nearby, such as Lake Oron, Oron to the southwest, but Nichatka is the deepest of the lakes of the Chara river basin. The lake is frozen between October and May; in the winter the thickness of the ice my reach . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patom Highlands
The Patom Highlands ( rus, Патомское нагорье) are a mountainous area in Eastern Siberia, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the uplands is part of Irkutsk Oblast, with a smaller section in northern Transbaikal Krai.Google Earth There are large deposits of gold in Bodaybo and Artyomovsky, Irkutsk Oblast, Artyomovsky. Besides these two towns, other inhabited localities of the mountain region are: Mama, Russia, Mama, Perevoz, Bodaybinsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Perevoz, Kropotkin, Irkutsk Oblast, Kropotkin, Svetly, Bodaybinsky District, Irkutsk Oblast,, Svetly and Bolshoy Patom (village), Bolshoy Patom, Bodaybinsky District. History In 1912 there was a massacre of striking workers of the Lena Goldfields, located in the Patom Highlands between the Lena and Vitim rivers. Strikers were protesting about harsh working conditions. Soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army intervened and fired upon protesters, causing hundreds of casualties. The incident provoke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalarsky District
Kalarsky District (russian: Каларский район) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the north of the krai, and borders with Tungokochensky District in the south. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Chara. Population: 9,785 ( 2002 Census); The population of Chara accounts for 21.0% of the district's total population. History The district was established on September 2, 1938. Geography It is the northernmost district of Transbaikalia. The relief is mostly mountainous and includes the Kodar Range, with the highest point of Transbaikalia, Peak BAM, as well as the Udokan Range, Kalar Range and part of the Patom Highlands, among others. There are also vast intermontane basins, and the unique Chara Sands area. On the territory of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lakes Of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: *Arakhley (Арахле́й) *Baikal (Байкал) *Baunt (Баунт) * Beloye, Ryazan Oblast (Белое) * Beloye, Vologda Oblast (Белое) * Bokon (Бокон) * Bolshoye Morskoye (Большое Морское) *Bolshoye Toko (Большое Токо) * Bolshoy Yeravna (Большо́е Ера́вное) *Bolshoye Topolnoye (Большое Топольное) *Botkul (Боткуль) *Brosno (Бросно) *Busani (Бусани) * Bustakh (Бустах) *Caspian Sea (Каспийское море) *Chany (Чаны) * Chukchagir (Чукчагирское) * Chyortovo (Чёртово) *Dorong (Доронг) *Lake Dynda (Дында) *Ebeyty (Эбейты) *Ekityki (Экитыки) * Elgygytgyn (Эльгыгы́тгын) *Emanda (Эмандьа) *Evoron (Эвopон) *Eyik (Эйик) * Ilirney (Илирней) * Ilmen (Ильмень) *Imandra (Имандра) * Ioni (Иони) *Isinga (Исинга) *Ivan-Arakhley Lake System ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara (river)
, image = 2000 Charoite 613.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = View of the river and piece of charoite , pushpin_map = Russia Sakha Republic , pushpin_map_size = , pushpin_map_caption= Location in the Sakha Republic, Russia , source1_location = Bolshoye Leprindo Lake , source1_coordinates = , source1_elevation = , mouth = Olyokma , mouth_coordinates = , mouth_elevation = , progression = Olyokma→ , subdivision_type1 = Country , subdivision_name1 = Yakutia, Russia , length = , discharge1_avg = , basin_size = The Chara (russian: Ча́ра; sah, Чаара, ''Çaara'') is a left tributary of the Olyokma in Eastern Siberia, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Together with the Olyokma, river Chara gives its name to the Olyokma-Chara Plateau (Олёкмо-Чарское плоскогорье), located to the east of its east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delyun-Uran Range
The Delyun-Uran Range (russian: Делюн-Уранский хребет, translit=Delyun-Uranskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands. The nearest airport is Bodaybo AirportGoogle Earth History This remote mountain area was first explored by Peter Kropotkin and Ivan Polyakov during the 1866 Olyokma-Vitim expedition of the East Siberian branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Kropotkin named the range after the area of conspicuous rapids of the Vitim river in the gorge where it crosses the range northwards (Делюн-Уранский порог). He described the range as a "desolate, gloomy place". The Vitim Nature Reserve was established in the eastern part of the range and neighboring mountainous areas in 1982. Geography This mountain range is located in the Baikal Rift Zone and it is part of the Baikal-Stanovoy Region. The Delyun-Uran is the northernmost subrange of the Stanovoy Highlands. It r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sen (Vitim)
Sen may refer to: Surname * Sen (surname), a Bengali surname * Şen, a Turkish surname * A variant of the Serer patronym Sène Currency subunit * Etymologically related to the English word ''cent''; a hundredth of the following currencies: ** Brunei dollar ** Cambodian riel ** Malaysian ringgit ** Indonesian rupiah * Etymologically unrelated to the English word ''cent''; a hundredth of the following currency: ** Japanese yen - People * Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist and philosopher * Aparna Sen (born 1945), an Indian filmmaker and actress * Antara Dev Sen (born 1963), a British–Indian journalist * Asit Sen (actor) (1917 – 1993), an Indian actor * Kaushik Sen (or Koushik Sen), an Indian actor * Ko Chung Sen (born 1968), a Malaysian politician * Konkona Sen Sharma (born 1979), an Indian actress and director * Lakshya Sen (born 2001), an Indian badminton player * Lin Sen (1868 – 1943, a former chairman of the government of the 1912–49 Republic of China * Mihi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus ''Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus ''Oncorhynchus'') basin. Other closely related fish in the same family include trout, Salvelinus, char, Thymallus, grayling, Freshwater whitefish, whitefish, lenok and Hucho, taimen. Salmon are typically fish migration, anadromous: they hatch in the gravel stream bed, beds of shallow fresh water streams, migrate to the ocean as adults and live like sea fish, then return to fresh water to reproduce. However, populations of several species are restricted to fresh water throughout their lives. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they hatched to spawn (biology), spawn, and tracking studies have shown this to be mostly true. A portion of a returning salmon run ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Earth
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geographic information system, GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and coordinates, or by using a Computer keyboard, keyboard or computer mouse, mouse. The program can also be downloaded on a smartphone or Tablet computer, tablet, using a touch screen or stylus to navigate. Users may use the program to add their own data using Keyhole Markup Language and upload them through various sources, such as forums or blogs. Google Earth is able to show various kinds of images overlaid on the surface of the earth and is also a Web Map Service client. In 2019, Google has revealed that Google Earth now covers more than 97 percent of the world, and has c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esox
''Esox'' is a genus of freshwater fish commonly known as pike or pickerel. It is the type genus of the family Esocidae. The type species of the genus is ''Esox lucius'', the northern pike. ''Esox'' has been present in Laurentia (which later became North America) and Eurasia since the Paleocene. Modern large pike species are native to the Palearctic and Nearctic realms, ranging across Northern America and from Western Europe to Siberia in North Asia. Pikes have the elongated, torpedo-like shape typical of predatory fishes, with sharply pointed heads and sharp teeth. Their coloration is typically grey-green with a mottled or spotted appearance with stripes along their backs, providing camouflage among underwater weeds, and each individual pike marking patterns are unique like fingerprints. Pikes can grow to a maximum recorded length of , reaching a maximum recorded weight of . Etymology The generic name ''Esox'' (pike fish) derives from the Greek ἴσοξ (''ee-soks'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taimen
Siberian taimen (''Hucho taimen''), also known as the common taimen (russian: Обыкнове́нный тайме́нь, Obyknovénnyĭ taĭménʹ), Siberian giant trout or Siberian salmon, is a species of salmon-like ray-finned fish from the genus ''Hucho'' in the family Salmonidae. These fish are found in rivers in Siberia and adjacent regions, and are harvested throughout the year. Habits and range The taimen is distributed from the Volga and Pechora River basins in the west to the Yana and Amur River basins in the east, spanning portions of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. On a larger scale, this includes parts of the Caspian, Arctic, and Pacific drainages in Eurasia. In Mongolia, the taimen is found in both the Arctic and Pacific drainages, specifically the Yenisei/Selenga, the Lena, and the Amur River Basins. The taimen lives in flowing water and is only occasionally found in lakes, usually near the mouth of a tributary. The taimen is not anadromous, but does sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenok
Lenoks, otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout,James Card: Fly fishing in South Korea.' Retrieved 22 June 2015. are salmonid fish of the genus ''Brachymystax'', native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (including Russian Far East), Northern China and Korea.Kartavtseva, I.V.; Ginatulina, L.K.; Nemkova, G.A.; and Shedko, S.V. (2013). Chromosomal study of the lenoks, Brachymystax (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae) from the South of the Russian Far East.' Journal of Species Research 2(1): 91-98. Species There are four species in this genus, of which three are listed by FishBase: * ''Brachymystax lenok'' (Pallas, 1773) – sharp-snouted lenok * '' Brachymystax savinovi'' Mitrofanov, 1959 * '' Brachymystax tumensis'' T. Mori, 1930 – blunt-snouted lenok A fourth species, '' Brachymystax tsinlingensis'' S. C. Li, 1966, was revalidated in 2015. Traditionally, only ''B. lenok'' was recognized, including both sharp-snouted and blunt-snouted forms. Base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perch
Perch is a common name for fish of the genus ''Perca'', freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Percidae. The perch, of which three species occur in different geographical areas, lend their name to a large order of vertebrates: the Perciformes, from the el, πέρκη (), simply meaning perch, and the Latin ''forma'' meaning shape. Many species of freshwater gamefish more or less resemble perch, but belong to different genera. In fact, the exclusively saltwater-dwelling red drum is often referred to as a red perch, though by definition perch are freshwater fish. Though many fish are referred to as perch as a common name, to be considered a true perch, the fish must be of the family Percidae. The type species for this genus is the European perch, ''P. fluviatilis''. Species Most authorities recognize three species within the perch genus: * The European perch (''P. fluviatilis'') is primarily found in Europe, but a few can also be found in South Africa, and even as far ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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